I ask unanimous consent that the vote by which the bill was indefinitely postponed may be reconsidered. and that it be referred again to the Committee on Military Affairs. and then I have an amendment which I wish to send to the committee. These deserters were thirtynine or forty men who some thirty years ago went in what was called Stephensons Regiment. the First New York Cavalry. around the Horn to California. They were really armed emigrants. Under the influence of the gold fever. which at that time existed. some forty members of the regiment deserted and went to the mines. There were very peculiar circumstances excusing the act of these parties.
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